My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

I think sometimes I get overly excited about adding things and having new ideas. You forget that more isn't always better.

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

I think there is a fascination with choral music in general.

People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid.

It is definitely much easier to feel that an album is disposable - to dismiss an album or delete the tracks you don't like or to just throw it into shuffle or whatever.

I would never be angry at someone for downloading the album. Sometimes people just wanna listen to it first to see if they like it and that's totally fair.

One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship and bond with the song.

In general, great companies prefer to grow organically, as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow

You're an Apprentice! You're not ready to think!" Gilan and Halt. The Ruins of Gorlan.

There's gonna be times when people tell you that you can't live your dreams, this is what I tell them, Never Say Never.

Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind…a mutual understanding of each other. I haven’t felt this way in forever.

If you had pockets, you were associated with a labor force. It meant you had things to carry yourself. Otherwise, your lady's maid or your manservant would have done it for you.

I can’t even take a stroll through a park. As soon as women see my face they start gathering up their children and running for home.